"Very nice welcome - sounds like a lot of friends here today," GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul told an enthusiastic crowd at a Twin Falls high school auditorium just now; you can watch live here courtesy of KBOI2 News. "I think we have to face our problems," he said. "We're paying for this debt. That's why the economy's in a very weak state, and why the wars keep going on and our civil liberties are being violated. We have to address that." Paul drew a big cheer when he said, "Outside of Washington the people are waking up and they're sick and tired of what we're getting." He said, "When the people wake up, Washington will eventually change." Another applause line from Paul: "I want to be president, but I don't want to be president to run your life."

He also said to cheers, "The federal war on drugs has caused a lot more harm than the drugs themselves."

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